Help with Reading for Worksheet 6

Help with Worksheet 6 for Professor Jopp

In the Colonial Period (about 1600-1776)

The North had slavery, but slavery was more important in the South (because of very big farms in the south = they were too big for owners to do the work themselves).

After American independence from English (after 1776)

In the 1830s

Abolitionism in the North (abolitionists believed there should be no slavery anywhere)
Pro-slavery feelings in the South (for economy and agriculture)

Many unclear situations:

For example, if a slave escaped from a slave state and reached a free state, was the slave free: North said "yes", South said "no"

Vocabulary: pages 24-26

word	page	part of speech	meaning for the way the word is used in this reading assignment
the North = the northern states		noun	The northeastern part of the U.S.
the South= the southern states		noun	The southeastern part of the U.S.
statehood	24	noun	becoming a state or being a state
calls	24	noun	opinions and demands of citizens and leaders
Dred Scott	24	noun	the name of a slave (born in 1799) who ran away from his owner in the South and escaped into the North
stick with	24	verb	keep; continue with
Dred Scott Decision	24	noun	a decision by the Supreme Court of the U.S. in Washington, D.C.; a judge said that governments of U.S. territories could not outlaw ( = prohibit / ban) slavery and that runaway slave in a free state was still a slave
land-mark case	24	noun	a court decision that is very important
by today's standards	24	prepositional phrase	compared to nowadays
statehood bill	25	noun	the proposal to create a state
the Union	25	noun	the northern states during the American Civil War (from 1861-1865)

Map of the division of the states during the Civil War.